- Whether you're using a GoPro, or any action camera,…There's always a need to do post-processing…on the images or footage to make it look good.…I know a lot of people who get frustrated.…They buy one of these action cameras and they say,…"My video or photos looks nothing like…"what the manufacturer shows."…The manufacturer does a lot of work…to make that material look good.…If you want to explore these techniques in depth,…I actually have a whole course, here,…on Lynda.com, all about processing…GoPro footage and stills.…But for now, I'm just gonna take a couple of shots…and give you the highlights.…

It all comes down to this.…You're gonna want to remove the lens distortion,…and this can be done with lens profiles,…or the GoPro software, which is free.…Additionally, a little bit of color correction…and boosting of the saturation goes a long way.…Let's open up a video file from a GoPro into Photoshop.…You'll note that Photoshop gives you the ability…to use video files, since Photoshop CS6 Extended.…If you're working with CC, it's pretty straight-forward.…

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4/21/2015

Join Rich Harrington and family on a trip to Costa Rica and see a variety of ways to capture the beauty and diversity of a tropic destination. This unique course introduces you to the culture, countryside, and wildlife of Costa Rica, but also shows how to shoot photographs and video in challenging situations travel photographers face in many places.

Rich organizes the lessons by location and activity, so you can dive right into
the type of photography that interests you: nature, landscape, macro, underwater, street, or architecture. First he covers packing and planning for a trip to Costa Rica. Then he visits five uniquely beautiful locations, starting with the remote mountain town of Monteverde, where he gets "close up" to wildlife and takes a GoPro along on a zipline tour. At Manuel Antonio, he shows how to shoot at the beach—in and out of the water—and create awe-inspiring time lapses. In Arenal Rich enters the rainforest and shoots with local chocolate and coffee growers, and in Caño Negro, he takes a river-boat tour. The trip ends in San José, the capital of Costa Rica, which offers great opportunities for shooting street photography and architecture.

The course closes with some in-field workflow tips to keep your images safe, and some post-production techniques to develop your photos in Lightroom, Photoshop, and Camera Raw.